Hirschbeck v. United States
District Court, N.D. New York
This was a suit by Caroline (1. Jlirschbeck, as administratrix of Joseph G-. Hirschbeck against the United States, to recover fees alleged to have been earned by the decedent as a, United States commissioner. Joseph (i. Hirschbeck was a circuit court commissioner for the Northern disirict of New York. • The plaintiff, as his administratrix, brings this suit to recover various items which wore stricken from Ills accounts by the accounting officers of the treasury department.
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This was a suit by Caroline (1. Jlirschbeck, as administratrix of Joseph G-. Hirschbeck against the United States, to recover fees alleged to have been earned by the decedent as a, United States commissioner. Joseph (i. Hirschbeck was a circuit court commissioner for the Northern disirict of New York. • The plaintiff, as his administratrix, brings this suit to recover various items which wore stricken from Ills accounts by the accounting officers of the treasury department. In making up the accounts of special deputy marshals ho liad charged for triplicate affidavits and triplicate orders for…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
This action has been submitted without oral ai-gument. The plaintiff has furnished a brief memorandum covering about two pages of legal cap. The defendant has furnished no brief at all. From a letter written by the comptroller to the attorney general and from the plaintiffs memorandum I have done my best to spell out, from the mass of accounts, allowances and disallowances, the points in dispute between the parties. The plaintiff has introduced testimony to prove that the services charged for by the intestate were actually performed'. The defendant has introduced no…
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